In 2006, Hussein stated in an interview that suicide bombing by Palestinians against Israelis was “legitimate, of course, as long as it plays a role in the resistance”.

In 2011, at an event marking the 47th anniversary of the founding of the terrorist organization Fatah, Hussein quoted a controversial hadith, stating: “The Hour will not come until you fight the Jews. The Jews will hide behind stones or trees. Then the stones or trees will call: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”

In short, the man’s got a history.

Police said the Mufti would be released later today, but still, even for this short time, this was a nice gift to Israel on Jerusalem Liberation Day.

The Global Jihad movement in Gaza, linked to Al Qaida, is threatening Hamas. The Jihad group has threatened to begin launching missiles against Israel and end the Hamas-Israel cease-fire, if Hamas doesn’t stop arresting their members, according to a report on the Yoni Alper Terror Watch site.

Over the past week, Hamas has been arresting members from various competing terrorist groups in Gaza.

Fatah officials are also upset with Hamas, claiming that Hamas and Israel are negotiating indirectly via Egypt on the terms of the cease-fire and on the transport of goods into Gaza.

Despite being part of the rumored indirect negotiations, Egypt too has entered the fray against Hamas, destroying many of the smuggling tunnels into Gaza, mostly by flooding them.

The former principal of a Jewish high school in Brooklyn was convicted on 75 counts of sexual abuse against three boys.

Emanuel Yegutkin, 33, was convicted Monday on all charges of sexual abuse stemming from his relationship with three boys between 1996 and 2005, including one who was 7 years old at the time.

Yegutkin faces up to 25 years in prison for the top charge of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree. He will be sentenced on Dec. 17.

Until his arrest in early 2009, Yegutkin served as the principal of Elite High School, a private school in the Bensonhurst neighborhood comprised largely of Russian-American students. Two of the victims were brothers; none were students at the school.

“This violent sexual predator faces the remainder of his life behind bars,” Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said. “This should serve as a clear message that those who would sexually abuse children in this county will be punished severely.”

Earlier this year, Hynes came under fire for his handling of prosecuting sex offenders in the haredi Orthodox community.

Prior to his arrest, Yegutkin also worked as a lifeguard at Oorah summer camp in upstate New York and as a volunteer paramedic for the Flatbush Hatzoloh ambulance service.

Aleksandar Cvetkovic, who allegedly took part in the massacres of Muslim population – Bosnian area of Srebrenica, Bosnia, was arrested and will be extradited to Bosnia to be prosecuted on suspicion of genocide, Israel’s Supreme Court decided on Thursday.

Cvetkovic was arrested in January, 2011, after a Bosnian court issued a warrant for his arrest for crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity during massacres that took place in July, 1995. The “Srebrenica massacre” involved transporting hundreds of Bosnians to a farm where they were shot and buried in mass graves. That massacre has been recognized by the international community as genocide.

The Israeli judge ruled that Bosnia must meet conditions that will ensure Cvetkovic’s safety, otherwise he would not be extradited. Accordingly, the judge ruled that the Bosnia government must hold him in a separate, secure wing, and allow him to receive visits of the Israeli Consul. Also, should he be found guilty, his punishment must be in line with the protocol established by the European Court of Human Rights.

The Bosnian authorities estimates the number of victims murdered in the farm at between 1,000 and 1,200 Bosnian Muslim men. The farm murders were part of the overall campaign waged by the Serb-Bosnian armed forces against the Muslim population of the Srebrenica enclave, during which 7,500 people were killed.

Cvetkovic, 42, immigrated to Israel with his Jewish wife and children in 2006 and received Israeli citizenship. According to the investigation material provided to the Israeli prosecution, Cvetkovic was part of the eight-soldier firing squad that executed the Bosnian victims.

The Government of Bosnia-Herzegovina asked Israel back in August of 2010 to extradite Cvetkovic, after a court in Sarajevo had issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. Justice Minister Prof. Yaakov Neeman then decided to open extradition proceedings against him.

Charlie Abutbul, considered a local mob boss, was arrested Tuesday night, along with four other suspects, following a police raid of an apartment in the Tel Aviv area, Walla reports. Police suspect a Jerusalem rabbi of hiring Abutbul’s services to blackmail a Haredi man from Jerusalem whom the rabbi accused of stealing money from his home. A Magistrate Court in Rishon Lezion on Wednesday extended by six days the detention of Abutbul and four other suspects.

Police revealed that Abutbul’s wife, Sonia, was arrested last week and charged with kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, and kidnapping. Seven additional suspects were arrested at the time. Sonia Abutbul denies all charges and claims that she was in bed at the time of the alleged incident., Mrs. Abutbul’s defense attorney Yaniv Peretz claims that her arrest is part of police effort to exert pressure on her husband. “It’s quite obvious that my client is being held hostage until the arrest of others. My client denies any connection to the incidents; she is being held in custody only because of her last name.”

Upon the arrest of a rabbi from northern Israel, Police disclosed the the investigation being conducted by the National Unit for Investigation of Serious and International Crime (YACHBAL) which investigates organized crime.

The investigation has revealed that, allegedly, the rabbi in question noticed that hundreds of thousands of shekels, collected at a family event, were missing. The rabbi and his intimate circle conducted their own investigation and concluded that a Haredi yeshiva student from Jerusalem, who had visited the rabbi, was the culprit. When they confronted him, he denied everything.

Police suspect that the rabbi approached Abutbul’s organization, or as a police source put it, “he brought some back-up from Netnaya.” (Netanya has been the legendary base of Israeli organized crime families.) The investigation further revealed that apparently Abutbul and his accomplices came to Jerusalem, threatened the victim, forced him into a jeep and took him to the basement of the building where the Abutbuls live in Netanya. This is where, allegedly, the victim was locked up all night long, and “interrogated” while being beaten on his head and all over his body, gagged, and receiving death threats, courtesy of Charlie Abutbul and his accomplices, including his wife Sonia.

The investigation also revealed that the victim was able to escape and get medical treatment for fractures and bruises on his face. Sonia Abutbul was arrested the same day, and by police and the YACHBAL issued a comprehensive gag order on the case.

Since then, Mrs. Abutbul’s detention was extended several times. Police suspect that about 15 individuals were involved in the incident, including Charlie Abutbul himself.

In court, yesterday, Abutbul claimed the yeshiva student stayed in his Netanya home of his own free will. When asked why he had been hiding from police prior to his arrest Tuesday night, Abutbul said he had heard that his wife was picked up for interrogation and was “giving police time to investigate and to discover the truth.”

Abutbul’s attorney Moshe Sherman told Walla that this was part of “the YACHBAL’s attempt to destroy the Abutbul family.” He added that in recent years Abutbul has been picked up for questioning and held for days and sometime weeks, and then released. “This is qwhy this time he decided to hide, so the cops first conduct an investigation and then arrest him.”

The U.S. Embassy and other sites connected with the U.S. were allegedly the target of terrorist attacks that were thwarted by the arrest of 11 suspected terrorists in Indonesia over the weekend.

The U.S. Embassy in the capital city of Jakarta, the U.S. Consulate in Surabaya, the local office of a U.S. mining company, as well as a plaza near the Australian Embassy and the headquarters of a special police force in Central Java were apparently the targets.

Indonesian national police spokesman Maj. Gen. Suhardi Alius told the Associated Press that the suspected terrorists were arrested in raids in four provinces.

“From evidence found at the scene, we believe that this group was well prepared for serious terror attacks,” Alius told the AP.

Bombs, explosive materials, a manual for making bombs, ammunition and a gas cylinder filled with highly explosive material was discovered in the raids. Also seized were videos and images of attacks on Muslims in different parts of the world.

The suspects belonged to a new group called the Harakah Sunni for Indonesian Society, or HASMI.

According to the group’s website, HASMI was created in 2005, and seeks a strict interpretation of Islam, “since all innovation is misguidance.”

It is unclear whether the targeting of U.S. diplomatic posts is a new trend in Islamic terrorist activity, following the murderous assault by what U.S. officials now admit was a well-planned terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.

The masked robber was soon followed by witnesses, only to be caught and held by Borough Park Shomrim volunteers, unarmed civilian patrollers from the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood whose mission is to thwart burglary, vandalism, mugging, assault, domestic violence, nuisance crimes, and anti-Semitic attacks.

Crawford allegedly held up the Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburg on Tuesday, making off with $1,960.

On Wednesday afternoon, he held up the Emigrant Savings Bank on Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene, shouting curses at the teller. When she did not immediately respond, he fled.